April - May, 2010

Although I haven't updated this log in a while, I'm hoping the words "not much has happened" will help. The spring vacation from mid-February to the beginning of April was fairly uneventful, though I attended Aikido practice around two times a week. Although I occasionally spent time out in Tokyo with other students that are still in the area, I haven't done anything exceptionally interesting enough so that I'd have updated with an entry.Fortunately, that changes at this point; since the beginning of the new semester, I've joined an additional club (Kyudo, or traditional Japanese archery using long bows) and met the new exchange students. With that, of course, comes additional travel and interesting trips. Since my friend and her host family lives in Sagamihara (in the bordering Kanagawa prefecture), I've gone twice to see them so far. Although mountains are visible from many areas in Tokyo, they are much more prevalent and visible throughout the Kanagawa prefecture.